Learning is dangerous

You would think that schools, ie. the places our children go to learn, would encourage children having access to the single most important, influential, and historically significant book ever written, rather than voting on whether to end said access. Especially since said access is free.

You also wonder how many of those same administrators and teachers opposed to allowing access to said book also encourage teaching those same children about anal sex.

An Idiotic Suit

I was reading the WFP and came across this article, "Province sued over child support".

The just of the article is that a women with three started getting $750 in new income in the form of monthly support payments from her ex-boyfriend and because of this the Manitoba government has reduced her $1,279.19 in social assistance accordingly.

The WFP starts this poor reporting with the statement, "A Gimli woman has initiated a class-action lawsuit against the province for forcing mothers on welfare to turn over child-support payments." While the byline and another line or two, mention this is simply a reduction of payment due to a new source of income, the WFP repeatedly makes absurd statements that somehow the government is taking money from this women.


Also, the entitlement this mother just oozes is a sorry statement on society. She actually states:

 "What right does the government have to take that money and use it for bridges and streets and things?"

Re-read that sentence. Now think about it for a second.

What kind of spoiled, entitled brat do you have to be to say something like that? Taxpayers provide her with over a $1000 a month (likely not including all the other benefits, such as child tax benefits, she gets from the taxpayers), then the government (rightfully) forces her boyfriend to pay $750 a month to care for her kids, and she complains that she is being stolen from so that the government can use taxpayer's money to benefit taxpayers. It's mind-boggling.

The government even resumed full payments when her boyfriend stopped paying. Mind-boggling.

"The monthly budget is difficult to live on as it is but when they withheld my support payments, it made it really tough," Miyai said. "I'm behind on all my bills. I'm spending the money my parents set aside for university."

Her income didn't change, so she fell behind on her bills. I'm sure this is somehow the government's fault.

(Also, look closely at the background of the picture; there might better reasons why she is behind on her bills).

The legal argument being made her is one of the most ludicrous I've heard of in a while.

"Miyai states child-support payments belong to the children, but the province's Family Services Department considers the money as income for the parent and deducts that amount from regular income-assistance cheques."
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In court documents, Miyai states the province's seizure of the child-support payments is a violation of the children's charter rights, and wants the court to rule it unlawful.

I don't know what more to say about it. I hope this case gets thrown out and both she and her lawyer get penalized for wasting the courts' time and resources.

Robocall Scandal: An Analysis by Riding

So, the robocall scandal has been in the news lately. I was curious as to the correlation between ridings that had complaints, ridings with location changes, and ridings that hired RMG. So, I charted all three. Riding Complaints came from here, while RMG and Voting Location Changes came from here. (The lists have been pared to eliminate multiple entries of the same riding). Under types of complaint, it goes Complainer (by party, Private citizen [PC] or source) - Complaint (Voting Location Misdirection [VL], fake party member by party, and other as appropriate).

Ridings with Voting Location Changes	Complaint by Riding	Ridings That Hired RMG	Type of Complaint
		Abbotsford
		Abitibi--Baie-James--Nunavik--Eeyou
Ahuntsic
Algoma-Manitoulin-Kapuskasing
Argenteuil-Papineau-Mirabel
Avalon		Avalon
Beauport-Limoilou		Beauport--Limoilou
Bonavista-Gander-Grand Falls-Windsor		Bonavista--Gander--Grand Falls--Windsor
		Brampton West
		Brampton--Springdale
Bramalea-Gore-Malton
Brandon-Souris
		Brant
		Burnaby--New Westminster
	Cambridge	Cambridge	PC – Robocalls
		Cardigan
Central Nova
Chambly Borduas
Chambly Borduas
		Charlesbourg-Haute-Saint-Charles
		Charleswood--St. James--Assiniboia
Chicoutimi-Le Fjord		Chicoutimi--Le Fjord
Chiliwack-Fraser Canyon		Chilliwack-Fraser Canyon
		Dauphin--Swan River--Marquette
	Davenport		NDP
		Delta-Richmond East
Desnethe-Missinippi-Churchill River
Don Valley West		Don Valley West
		Drummond
		Dufferin-Caledon
		Dufferin-Caledon
	Edmonton East		NPD – VL
		Edmonton-Leduc
		Edmonton-Sherwood Park
		Edmonton-Strathcona
Eglinton-Lawrence	Eglinton-Lawrence	Eglinton-Lawrence	LIB – Fake LIB
	Egmont	Egmont	LIB – Fake LIB
	Elmwood-Transcona	Elmwood-Transcona	NDP – VL
	Esquimalt-Juan de Fuca	Esquimalt--Juan de Fuca	PC – Fake LIB
Essex	Essex		NDP
	Etobicoke Centre		LIB – Poll Shutdown(?)
Etobicoke North
		Fleetwood--Port Kells
Fredericton		Fredericton
		Gaspésie--Îles-de-la-Madeleine
		Glengarry--Prescott--Russell
		Glengarry--Prescott--Russell
Guelph	Guelph	Guelph	LIB – Fake LIB/VL
	Haldimand-Norfolk	Haldimand-Norfolk	LIB – Fake LIB
	Halton	Halton	EC – VL
	Hamilton East-Stoney Creek		LIB
Haute-Gaspesie-La Mitis-Matane-Matapedia		Haute-Gaspésie--La Mitis--Matane--Matapédia
Jeanne-Le Ber
Kamloops-Thompson-Caribou
Kenora		Kenora
Kitchener Centre	Kitchener Centre	Kitchener Centre
Kitchener Conestoga	Kitchener-Conestoga	Kitchener Conestoga	LIB – VL
	Kitchener Waterloo	Kitchener-Waterloo	EC
		Kootenay-Columbia
		Lac-Saint-Louis
Lambton-Kent-Middlesex
Laruentides-Labelle
Laval-Les Iles
Leeds-Grenville
London-Fanshawe
	London North Centre		LIB – False info about LIB
	London West	London West	LIB
		Lotbinière--Chutes-de-la-Chaudière
		Louis-Hebert
		Malpeque
Manicouagan
		Miramichi
		Mississauga Brampton South
Mississauga East-Cooksville	Mississauga East-Cooksville	Mississauga East--Cooksville	LIB
		Mississauga South
		Mississauga--Erindale
		Montmagny--L'Islet--Kamouraska--Rivière-du-Loup
		Montmorency--Charlevoix--Haute-Côte-Nord
	Mount Royal	Mount Royal	LIB – VL
New Burnswick Southwest
		New Westminster--Coquitlam
Nickel Belt
	Niagara Falls		LIB – Fake LIB
	Nipissing Timiskaming		LIB – VL
		North Vancouver
		North Vancouver
		Nunavut
		Oak Ridges - Markham
	Oakville		LIB – Fake LIB
		Oshawa
	Ottawa Centre	Ottawa Centre	NDP
	Ottawa Orleans	Ottawa-Orleans	LIB – VL
Ottawa West-Nepean	Ottawa West-Nepean		LIB
Ottawa-Vanier
Oxford
		Palliser
Parkdale-High Park	Parkdale-High Park		LIB/NDP – Fake LIB
		Parry Sound-Muskoka
	Perth-Wellington		LIB
	Peterborough		CON – Misinformation
		Pickering-Scarborough East
		Pierrefonds—Dollard
Pontiac
Port Moody-Westwood-Port Coquitlam		Port Moody--Westwood--Port Coquitlam
	Prince George-Peace River	Prince George-Peace River	LIB – VL
		Quebec
		Regina--Qu'Appelle
Richmond Hill		Richmond Hill
		Richmond-Arthabaska
		Rimouski-Neigette-Temiscouata-Les Basques
Riviere-du-Nord
Roberaval-Lac-Saint-Jean
	Saanich-Gulf Islands	Saanich--Gulf Islands	GR
Saint Boniface	Saint Boniface		LIB – Fake LIB
		Saint-Hyacinthe--Bagot
Saint-Laurent-Cartierville
Saint-Maurice-Champlain
Sarnia-Lambton	Sarnia-Lambton	Sarnia-Lambton	The Sun – VL
		Saskatoon--Rosetown--Biggar
		Sault Ste. Marie
Scarborough Centre
		Scarborough Southwest
	Simcoe-Grey		LIB
Skeena-Bulkley Valley		Skeena-Bulkley Valley
Souris-Moose Mountain
	South Shore-St. Margaret's	South Shore--St. Margaret's	NPD – VL
		South Surrey--White Rock--Cloverdale
	St. Catharines		LIB
		St. John's East
St. John's South-Mount Pearl		St. John's South - Mount Pearl
	St. Paul's		LIB – Fake LIB
	Sudbury		LIB/NDP
		Surrey North
	Sydney-Victoria	Sydney-Victoria	LIB – Fake LIB/VL
Thornhill
	Thunder Bay-Superior North		NDP
Timmins-James Bay
		Tobique -Mactaquac
Toronto Centre
		Vancouver Centre
Vancover Island North		Vancouver Island North
		Vancouver South
		Vaughan
Vegreville-Wainwright
	Wellington-Halton Hills		LIB
		Welland
West Nova		West Nova
		Western Arctic
Westlock-St. Paul
		Whitby-Oshawa
Willowdale	Willowdale		LIB – Fake LIB
Windsor West
	Windsor-Tecumseh		NDP
	Winnipeg-South Centre		LIB
	Winnipeg South		NDP
		York Centre
York West
Yukon		Yukon

Red indicates that the Riding hired RMG and there was a complaint. Blue indicates a complaint. Green indicates a complaint and that there was a voting location change in the riding. Yellow indicates the complaint doesn't seem to have to do with the present scandal.

From this we can see that:

• 43 ridings with reported incidences, 2 of which are not really related to the present scandal. 
• 15 ridings in which RMG were hired had incidences (out of a total of 98 were RMG were hired).
• 15 ridings with incidences did not hire RMG and did not have a location change.
• 11 ridings had incidences in which there was an actual polling change.

More analysis could be done, but this is enough for me for now. Feel free to link here and add your own analysis.